Ultimately, achieving equality for Indigenous peoples in
life expectancy rates within 25 years is an achievable goal.
Perhaps the new proposed Authority may now reconsider the original recommendations of the review report and seek to enable Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people across the country access to the broader mainstream health resources, which is the only way we will really achieve the desired results of closing the gap in
life expectancy rates within a generation.
Not exact matches
Prof Kirby said improving survival
rates on patients receiving chemotherapy, which can extend
life expectancies by up to three years, meant it was a «big mistake to let him out on the premise that he would be dead
within three months».
mortality the
rate of occurrence of death
within a population
within a specified time period; calculation of mortality takes account of age - specific death
rates, and can thus yield measures of
life expectancy and the extent of premature death
Mortality -
Rate of occurrence of death
within a population; calculation of mortality takes account of age - specific death
rates, and can thus yield measures of
life expectancy and the extent of premature death.
In December 2007, COAG adopted the target of achieving Indigenous health and
life expectancy equality
within a generation and to halve our under - five's mortality
rate within 10 - years.
Setting six «Closing the Gap» Targets, including to achieve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
life expectancy equality
within a generation, and to halve the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander under - fives mortality
rate gap
within a decade; and